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Academic year 2014-2015Value date : 12/05/2015
Version 2013-2014
HEVL0002-1  Contemporary History

Duration :  30h Th
Number of credits :  
Bachelier en traduction et interprétation2
Lecturer :  Julie Dury
Language(s) of instruction :  
French language
Organisation and examination :  
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Course contents :  
Contemporary history from the first world war to the present day
Learning outcomes of the course :  
General course objectives:
- To encourage students to become responsible citizens
- To develop student's critical mind, ability to summarise and general knowledge
- To allow students to understand the world in which they are evolving

Special course objectives:
- date, locate and put back in their context the historical events seen in class;
- in documents, define and mobilise historical concepts seen in class and/or present in the glossary provided;
- critical examination: establish the identity card and check the relevance as well as the reliability of the proposed documents;
- analyse (retrieve information/messages) the written, cartographic, statistical, schematic, iconographic documents, etc., and put them back in their historical context;
- highlight the cause and effect relations between the information from the past seen in class;
- adopt an active learning attitude by reading texts (compulsory reading).
Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :  
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :  
Ex-cathedra classes and exercices
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :  
Face to face
Recommended or required readings :  
Compulsory reading:   BAIGORRI JALÓN (J.), De Paris à Nuremberg: naissance de l'interprétation de conférence, Ottawa, Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa, 2004 (Coll. «Regards sur la traduction» dirigée par J. Delisle) pp. 1-6, 175-224.
Recommended readings:
- Atlas des relations internationales, sous la dir. de P. Boniface, Paris, 2013.
- CAROL (A.), GARRIGUES (J.) et IVERNEL (M.), Précis d'histoire du XXe siècle, Paris, 2005.
- DUROSELLE (J.-B.) et KASPI (A.), Histoire des relations internationales de 1919 à nos jours, 2 t., Paris, 2012.
- HAYT (R.), Atlas d'histoire, Bruxelles, 2012.
- Le dictionnaire historique et géopolitique du 20e siècle, sous la dir. de S. Cordelier, Paris, 2007.
- LEJEUNE (D.), Histoire du monde actuel (1990-2000), Paris, 2001.
- NOUSCHI (M.), Le 20e siècle. Tournants, temps, tendances, Paris, 2011.
- NOUSCHI (M.), Petit atlas historique du 20e siècle, Paris, 2010.
- VAÏSSE (M.), Les relations internationales depuis 1945, Paris, 2013.
- VAÏSSE (M.), Dictionnaire des relations internationales de 1900 à nos jours, Paris 2009.
Assessment methods and criteria :  
Written exam in January relating to the subjects studied in class and the compulsory texts: 100% of the mark, 10% of which for mastery of the French language
Work placement(s) :  
Organizational remarks :  
Contacts :  
Julie DURY

Bât. BE-026 Haute Ecole de la Ville de Liège
rue Hazinelle 2
4000 Liège
Belgique

E-mail: Julie.Dury@ulg.ac.be

Items online :  
Contemporary history
Texts, maps, diagrams,... seen in class and a glossary will be available on eCampus



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